The other night, we had a half-power outage (high-draw devices wouldn’t work, but lamps, etc. would), and then all the power went out. It was out for maybe 2 hours total. When the power came back on, my HTPC would no longer boot. It took forever to get through post, and was not able to boot from my 40GB Seagate 7200.7 IDE hard drive (even though it detected it).
So it searches for DHCP client, or something like that, and says it is unable to find it, and suggests that I boot from disk. So I insert my Windows XP Professional (SP1) disc into the drive and hit enter, like it asked me to do. At first, there’s a black screen for maybe a minute. Then, text reading “Setup is examining your configuration”… then… nothing.
That’s all I’ve been able to get it to do.
I am relatively inexperienced with troubleshooting, and frankly I was kind of relying on the $300 Monster Power surge suppressor that I own to prevent stuff like this from happening.
I have no clue what to do next and I am desperate to to get this thing up and running again ASAP.
What do I do??
HELP!